Rope sling for gun-shells.



APPLICATION FILED DBO.14, 1911.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

W M a mu/finances COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPII c0., WASHINGTON, u. c.

JAMES M. SNEE, 0F BRIDG-EPORT, CONNECTICUT,

ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT H. NEWMAN AND WILLIAM M. STRAWN, BOTH 0F BRIDGEPOBT, CONNECTICUT.

ROPE SLING FOR GUN-SHELLS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 3, 191st.

Application filed December 14. 1911. Serial No 665,666.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES M. Snnn, c1t1- zen of the United States, and resident of Bridgeport, in the county of Fan-field and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful. Improvements in Rope Sling for Gun-Shells, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in rope slings for gun shells, bottles, and the like. j t

The object of the invention is to provlde a simple and convenient form of device to facilitate the handling of objects of various kinds such as gun shells, and particularly to provide means whereby such shells may be quickly and conveniently lowered into a ships hull for storing and again raised to the deck for use; to provide a novel form of sling for the above purpose which can be made from a single piece of rope in a convenient and inexpensive manner, and so that when completed the shell can be readily placed and retained therein during handling and until the same is used.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor detail of construction within the scope of the claims may beresorted to without departure from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Figure 1 shows a perspective view of my improved form of one piece rope sling having a shell indicated therein by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is diagrammatic view of the sling showing the manner of connecting the parts together.

As will be seen from the d -awing the sling includes a series of vertically and longitudinally disposed rope supporting members and a series of horizontally arranged connecting side or girdle members which are formed to encircle the shell and engage the several. longitudinal supports, the whole being so arranged as to permit the shell to be dropped in from the top and supported on the crossed bottom portion of the side supporting memhers which form the bottom of the slin As before stated the sling is formed of one continuous piece of rope which is formed,

looped and threaded together to produce the aforesaid features, thus elin'iinating the formation of unnecessary splices or knots which obviously tend to weaken the structure and make it more expensive.

Referring in detail to the characters of reference marked upon the drawings 5 represents a splice which unites the two end portions of the single rope from which the sling is made, to form one continuous piece throughout. This splice is preferably arranged in one of the four upper inclined hanger portions as shown in the drawings just below the hole (5 formed in the two upper loop portions of the front and rear hanger ropes 7, 8, 9, and 10. The rope thus forms both the front loop 1?) and the rear loop 14 that registers with the before mentioned front loop, and they together form the hole 6 through which a hook of the hoist, not shown, maybe attached for raising or lowering the sling and shell in the manner before mentioned.

The sling is formed or put together of a single continuous piece of rope in the following manncr: The eye (a is first formed in the proper part of the length of the portion 19 of the rope, and the two rope portions are then deflected at substantially a right angle to each other, one portion 1%) being carried down and across diagonally to the rear and then extended up vertically to form the unbroken side member 15, the incline 8, the rear loop 141- and the end 7 to form the splice 5. The before mentioned upper portion of the rope 19, is looped around to form the lower horizontal girdle 1S, and is then threaded through the before mentioned eye a. A second eye I) is next formed in the upwardly extended part 19, and a second loop 17 formed. The portion 19 of the loop 17 is threaded through the said eye 6 and then again disposed upward. The third eye 21 is formed in line with the before mentioned eyes a and Z) to receive the portion 20 of the rope after the top loop and girdle 16 is formed. The portion 20 when disposed up from the eye 21 forms the inclined part 10 and when folded over at the top makes the front loop 13. It is then disposed down as at 9 and 12 through the eyes 16, 17 and 18*, The lower portion 12 of the side 12 is deflected across diagonally and extended up through the eyes 18", 17 and 16 to connect with the girdles and to form the rear side member 11, and end7. The downwardly disposed portion 19 of the rope is carried back across diagonally and threaded through the eye 12 of the portion 12 and then eX- tended up through the eyes 18 17 and 16 to form the side 15, the incline 8, the 1 1 and its end T 'WhiClI latter is spliced as at 5 to the other end 7 of the same rope. There may obviously be any number of these girdle ropes according to the particular use to which the device is to be put. I find, however, that two or three is ample for a shell sling of the class specified. It will be noted that the girdle and side members are connected together at all intersecting points and all said connections are made in substantially the same way by spreading the strands of the one rope at the intersecting points to form the eyes, before mentioned, and through which the side ropes are passed in a manner indicated in the drawings.

To facilitate the insertion of a shell the openings A or B bet-ween the hangers 7 and 10 or 9 and 10 may be made larger by slipping the portion 20 of the girdle rope 16 backward or forward through the eye 21 termed in the rope. The two loops 13 and 14 forming the attaching means is preferably secured together by means of a small twine 22 being wrapped therearound to bring the parts in alinement.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat-- ent is: I

l. A shell sling made of a continuous piece of rope and comprising longitudinal members and encircling girdle members, said girdle members being formed by looped portions of one of the longitudinal members and the other longitudinal members being threaded through the strands of the girdle members whereby the latter are held spaced apart in substantially parallel relation, the diagonally disposed longitudinal members rear loop being connected together below the lower girdle to form the bottom of the sling and the upper ends of the longitudinal members being arranged to constitute means for suspending the sling.

2. A shell sling made of a single length of rope and comprising longitudinal members and encircling girdle members, the girdle members being formed by looped portions of one of the longitudinal members and the other longitudinal members being I threaded through the strands of the girdle members, the lower ends of diagonally t opposite longitudinal members being united by connecting portions, one connecting portion being threaded through the strands of the other connecting portion whereby the bottom of the sling is formed below the )lowermost girdle member, and the upper ends of the members being connected together by loops extending above the upper girdle member to form suspending means for the sling.

A sling for projectiles made of a continuous piece of rope and comprising longi tudinal members and encircling girdle members, each of said girdle members consisting of a loop formed by passing one of the longitudinal members through its own strands while each of thecother longitudinal members passes through the strands of said loop at separate points; all of the longitudinal -members being united at the bottom of the sling and extending above the girdle members to form handles for the sling substantially as described.

Signed at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairlield and State of Connecticut, this 9th day of December, A. D. 1911.

JAMES M. SNEE.

Witnesses C. M. NEWMAN, RUTH M. lVoRDnN.

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Washington, D. C. 

